Jan: Occam’s razor is not so much a rule of science but an operating guideline for doing science. It could be reduced to “test simple theories first”. In the past this has been very useful in keeping scientific effort productive, the ‘belief’ is that it will continue to be useful in this way.
Jan: Occam’s razor is not so much a rule of science but an operating guideline for doing science. It could be reduced to “test simple theories first”. In the past this has been very useful in keeping scientific effort productive, the ‘belief’ is that it will continue to be useful in this way.